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The Signpost: 24 April 2016
- Special report: Update on EranBot, our new copyright violation detection bot
- Featured content: The double-sized edition
- Traffic report: Two for the price of one
- Arbitration report: Amendments made to the Race and intelligence case
Wikidata weekly summary #206
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Writing a bachelor's thesis at Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
- Europeana Art History Challenge begins
- TED is partnering with the Wikimedia community to add “ideas worth spreading” to Wikimedia projects
- Wikidata meets world literature
- Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes (conference poster)
- Past: Wikimedia Conference
- Other noteworthy stuff
- SQUID: a new class and property browser for Wikidata (background info)
- Wikidata Graph Builder now can visualize graphs with different node sizes. See for instance, types of artists with number of people, occupied with each subclass item
- List of items that have English, German, and French sitselinks, but no statements
- List of articles on English Wikipedia with a video where the corresponding item has no video
- Listeria bot (the one generating lists on Wikipedia based on Wikidata data) will now begin auto-replacing simple WDQ queries with SPARQL ones
- Magnus is looking for a designer to help with a logo for PetScan
- Arbitrary access for Wikimedia Commons is coming as planned on the 26th
- Wikidata surpassed English Wikipedia in items/articles using files from Wikimedia Commons
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Danish listed buildings case ID, Models.com client ID, Race time, IAT diver ID, IAT weightlifter ID, IAT triathlete ID, FIS snowboarder ID, FIS Nordic combined skier ID, FIS ski jumper ID, FIS freestyle skier ID, FIS cross-country skier ID, FIS alpine skier ID, D-U-N-S, source of income, budget, BNE journal ID, JudoInside.com ID, ISO 4063 process number, blue-style.com ID, Wrestlingdata person id, Danish protected area ID, Skyscraper Center building complex ID, Research Papers in Economics Series handle, NUTTAB Food Identifier, AUSNUT Food Identifier, CNC film rating, EIRIN film rating, exploitation visa number, production date, Dictionary of Canadian Biography ID, New Zealand Organisms Register ID, Roller Coaster Database ID, Photographers' Identities Catalog ID, PRONOM software identifier, PRONOM file format identifier, Filmiroda rating
- Newest WikiProjects: Olympics
- Query examples: songs with longest melody (source), subjects with most art dedicated to them (source), versions of The Scream (source)
- Development
- There will be some maintenance on the query service in a few hours
- Redesigned the rank selector as well as snak type selector icons (phab:T129033#2217402, gerrit:283968)
- The snak type selector icon also has a tooltip now (gerrit:283945)
- The term table header row as well as language column will now be marked as
<th>
instead of<td>
(gerrit:283395) - Fixed an issue with newline characters in quantity values (phab:T110728)
- Fixed the month-precision time parser ignoring the minus in "January -150" (phab:T132441)
- Continued working on diffing and patching support for new entity types (phab:T132442)
- Continued working on support for creating entities of new types as part of the work for Wikimedia Commons support (phab:T132964)
- Rolled out a little query explanation field to query.wikidata.org to help you better understand a query if you don't understand SPARQL well
- Fixed a bug where the map wouldn't show in the visualization of a query result (phabricator:T132669)
- Fixed issues with the duplicate references gadget (phabricator:T131920)
- Added basic support for more languages to the query service (phabricator:T132756)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- Wikimedia tested a new data center last week. This meant that the wikis could be read but not edited for 45 minutes on April 19 and for 20 minutes on April 21. [1]
- When the data center was tested, new edits were not shown in the recent changes log for 20 minutes. They are in the logs now. You can read more about how to find the edits.
- Unread notifications were sometimes counted incorrectly. This has now been fixed. [2]
Changes this week
- Wikimedia Commons will have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Commons. This will happen on April 26. [3]
- It will be easier to choose if you want to watch files you have uploaded with the upload wizard. [4]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 27. It will be on all wikis from April 28 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on April 26 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The "Save page" button when you edit will be called "Publish" instead. This is to help new editors understand what it does. It already works like this on some wikis. [5]
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21:02, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 2 May 2016
- In the media: Wikipedia Zero piracy in Bangladesh; bureaucracy; chilling effects; too few cooks; translation gaps
- Traffic report: Purple
- Featured content: The best... from the past two weeks
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The visual editor now works when you use Internet Explorer 9. [6]
Problems
- There was a security problem with the MobileFrontend extension. It showed information that had been oversighted. This has now been fixed. [7]
Changes this week
- You can now see which notifications are available on a wiki on Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration. [8]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 4. It will be on all wikis from May 5 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "PSR-6 Cache interface in Mediawiki core". The meeting will be on May 4 at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Pages could be added to new users' watchlists by default when they edit them. New users could also by default get email notifications when pages they watch are edited. This is discussed on Meta. [9]
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20:09, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Wikiversities now have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Wikiversity. This happened on May 3. [10]
- You can use Wikipedia GapFinder to find missing articles between languages. [11]
- Users are invited to try Cross-wiki Notifications on all wikis. This is the last test session before the release by default, scheduled for May 12th at 23:00 UTC. [12][13]
- You can use keyboard shortcuts to open the visual editor (meta+V) or the wikitext editor (meta+E) (on certain wikis, even if you have chosen a favorite editor). [14]
- Uploading files bigger than 100 megabytes on Wikimedia Commons required to opt-in in your preferences. This is not necessary anymore. [15]
- The UploadsLink extension is now available on Wikimedia Commons. [16]
- Deleting a translation unit page didn't remove the corresponding content from the translation page. This is now solved. [17]
- Translation suggestions based on Apertium are now available on Mediawiki.org. [18]
Problems
- MediaWiki 1.27.0-wmf.23 has been rolled back from Wikimedia wikis, due to a performance issue. [19]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 11. It will be on all wikis from May 12 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on May 10 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Overhaul Interwiki map, unify with Sites and WikiMap. The meeting will be on May 11 at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- 2017 European hackathon will happen on May 19 - 21, in Vienna (Austria).
Future changes
- Today, in categories, a page titled "11" comes before "2". We plan to reorder that: "2" will come before "11". Please tell the developers if the change will cause problems. [20]
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23:22, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Some image thumbnails now load faster on mobile. They also take up less bandwidth. [21]
Problems
- Last week's MediaWiki version was late on some wikis. [22]
Changes this week
- Special:Notifications will have "mark as read" buttons for each day. The non-JavaScript version will get it this week. A JavaScript version will come later. [23]
- Wikis can now locally decide what wikitext they want the signature button to produce. [24]
- A one-time welcome message for users will now be shown in the wikitext editor. This will include existing users. [25]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 18. It will be on all wikis from May 19 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are "Requirements for change propagation". The meeting will be on May 18 at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Using self-closing tags like
<div/>
and<span/>
to mean<div></div>
and<span></span>
will not work in the future. Templates and pages that use these tags should be fixed. When Phabricator ticket T134423 is fixed these tags will parse as<div>
and<span>
instead. This is normal in HTML5. [26]
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16:01, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 17 May 2016
- Op-ed: Swiss chapter in turmoil
- In the media: Wikimedia's Dario Taraborelli quoted on Google's Knowledge Graph in The Washington Post
- Featured content: Two weeks for the prize of one
- Traffic report: Oh behave, Beyhive / Underdogss
- Arbitration report: "Wikicology" ends in site ban; evidence and workshop phases concluded for "Gamaliel and others"
- Wikicup: That's it for WikiCup Round 2!
Your current topic bans/edit restrictions
Here are your current restrictions:
- No tagging articles
- No welcoming users
- You may edit only in your userspace or any talk space (Talk, User talk, Wikipedia talk, etc.)
Exceptions to these are allowed if approved by an admin or one of your mentors. An exception might be a one-time thing, or allowing you to do a specific thing whenever you want. Of course, I don't know if the people who were acting as your mentors want to continue. They put work into working on a way to help you learn, only to have you walk away from it.
As far as getting these lifted, you would need to show that you can make good, constructive edits. You can do that by working on articles in your userspace and asking people to review your changes. Any such changes would need approval before being moved outside of your userspace.
This does not mean that you should do a lot of work that just stays in your userspace, because that wouldn't benefit Wikipedia. Work on no more than a few articles at a time, and work on things that will benefit the project. You already have quite a few articles in your userspace, so I don't think you need to create any new ones right now.
Any questions? --Auntof6 (talk) 02:53, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
- Here's another one: you are not to edit any pages here that are policies, guidelines, procedural, or in any way instructional. This does not apply to articles, only to other areas, including but not limited to Wikipedia-space and Help-space. In the case of pages like Template talk:Did you know, where part of the page is instructional and part is discussion, you may edit the discussion but not the instructional part. I added this one partly because some pages that fit this definition are talk pages, which you would otherwise be allowed to edit. --Auntof6 (talk) 03:26, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
Welcome back
These are special "Welcome-back cookies" baked fresh just for you! <stage whisper>...will someone please get rid of the bag the cookies came in before PokestarFan sees it?</stage whisper> Etamni | ✉ | ✓ 06:40, 17 May 2016 (UTC) |
- @Etamni: I saw the bag. PokestarFan (talk) (My Contribs) 21:39, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
- Next time you brink cookies, remove the bag first!
- Just kidding.
- Next time you brink cookies, remove the bag first!
The page you wrote, User:PokestarFan/Navbox, has been selected for quick deletion. If you think this page should be kept, please add {{wait}} below the line {{QD}} and say why on the talk page. If the page is already gone, but you think this was an error, you can ask for it to be undeleted. You can find more information about the reason here. PokestarFan (talk) (My Contribs) 21:50, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
Quick deletion of User:PokestarFan/Mitos.is
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Quick deletion of User:PokestarFan/IOS 9
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Quick deletion of User:PokestarFan/QD log
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Quick deletion of User:PokestarFan/Full moon
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Quick deletion of User:PokestarFan/WikiCleanerConfiguration
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Quick deletion of User:PokestarFan/huggle3.css
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Quick deletion of User:PokestarFan/Welcome to Wikipedia
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Quick deletion of Template:TPSAward
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User:PokestarFan/sandbox/Category:Parody movies
What is the purpose of this page? Categories don't work in userspace. --Auntof6 (talk) 01:57, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
Quick deletion of User:PokestarFan/sandbox/Category:Parody movies
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You now see a warning message on pages that try to use {{DISPLAYTITLE}} but it doesn't work because it doesn't match the page's actual title. [27]
Problems
- Commons had problems with server lag. This meant that it took longer time for files to turn up in categories. [28]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on May 24 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- All HTTP access to Wikimedia sites and APIs will stop working. Some bots still use HTTP. They will need to use HTTPS instead. This will happen on June 12. [29]
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18:40, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
Service award
You have passed your 600th edit and have been contributing here for over 3 months. You are now qualified to display the following award. Congratulations! User:Rus793 (talk) 19:04, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
This editor is an Apprentice Editor and has the right to show this Service Badge. |
The Signpost: 28 May 2016
- Special report: Compensation paid to Sue Gardner increased by almost 50 percent after she stepped down as executive director
- News and notes: Upcoming Wikimedia conferences in the US and India; May Metrics and Activities Meeting
- Op-ed: Journey of a Wikipedian
- Featured content: Eight articles, three lists and five pictures
- Traffic report: Splitting (musical) airs / Slow Ride
- Arbitration report: Gamaliel resigns from the committee
Quick deletion of User:PokestarFan/sandbox/Sparknotes
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Quick deletion of User:PokestarFan
The page you wrote, User:PokestarFan, has been selected for quick deletion. If you think this page should be kept, please add {{wait}} below the line {{QD}} and say why on the talk page. If the page is already gone, but you think this was an error, you can ask for it to be undeleted. You can find more information about the reason here. PokestarFan (talk) (My Contribs) 13:22, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
Wait on QD
I do not see a valid reason given for the request. Presumably it coincides with the user no longer active banner, but that has been up for several months while the user has made well over 100 edits during that time. PokestarFan, discuss this with your mentors and see what they recommend. If you genuinely wish to leave and not contribute anymore, then just leave the pages as they are. User:Rus793 (talk) 14:06, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
- Request for courtesy vanishing refused. From en:WP:RTV: "Vanishing is not a way to avoid criticism, sanctions, or other negative attention, unless you really mean to leave permanently."
- If this somehow makes it to the Global Rename queue, note to global renamers and/or stewards: it is my judgement as a local sysop that the right to vanish is being misused over here. It is suggested that prospective requests be accepted only if there is a pressing privacy-related/real-word concern for the continued existence of this account, and related associations. Chenzw Talk 15:46, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
- @Rus793: I don't see a request to delete the talk page, just the user page. Was there a request I missed to delete the talk page? User pages can usually be deleted, and these days they're often deleted so that the user's global user page will be displayed. --Auntof6 (talk)
- Sorry, I meant userpage. I'll edit the comment. User:Rus793 (talk) 16:48, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
- I previously removed the QD template from this user talk page. User talk pages are not eligible under QD U1, though users are entitled to request deletion of their entire userspace (non-talk).
I would, however, suggest holding on for a bit before deleting - there are quite a few userpages, and PokestarFan has a bit of a flip-flopping history regarding such things. There is no time limit for QD anyway.Chenzw Talk 16:55, 30 May 2016 (UTC)- Oh, never mind, I commented a bit too late on this. Chenzw Talk 16:56, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
- Maybe people were getting confused because of PokestarFan's custom text in the edit summary -- "Made by PokestarFan". At first, I thought he was asking to delete everything he had made, but when I looked closer, I saw that that was not the case. --Auntof6 (talk) 17:01, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
- Oh, never mind, I commented a bit too late on this. Chenzw Talk 16:56, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
- I previously removed the QD template from this user talk page. User talk pages are not eligible under QD U1, though users are entitled to request deletion of their entire userspace (non-talk).
- Sorry, I meant userpage. I'll edit the comment. User:Rus793 (talk) 16:48, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
┌─────────────────────────────────┘
I have deleted the user page. Users can request deletion of any page in their userspace except their talk page. They do not have to give a reason. There was nothing on the user page that needed to be preserved, and the user's global user page is now displayed. --Auntof6 (talk) 16:57, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- There is now a standard way to get the target of a redirect page from a Lua module. [30]
Problems
- A new way to handle rollback was introduced. It broke some tools and scripts and was reverted. This will be re-planned after review. [31][32]
- CentralNotice didn't work in some older browsers. This has now been fixed. [33]
Changes this week
- When you edit a file or category page with the visual editor the rest of the page will be shown in its normal place. [34]
- The Translate extension will get an edit summary field. [35]
- A change to the
<charinsert>
feature could break some user scripts. Contact Bawolff if the "click to insert special characters" links in the edit window break on your wiki. [36][37] - Elasticsearch will be upgraded on Wikimedia wikis this week. This should not affect you, but if you have problems with the search function this is probably the reason. [38]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 31 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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16:18, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Changes this week
- The history page can tell you if a page on your watchlist was updated since you last visited it. This now works the same way in Vector as in other skins. The change broke local designs on some wikis. This will be fixed this week. [41]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).
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20:51, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Wikimedia wikis now use AuthManager. If you have new problems related to logging in or being logged in, report them. [42]
- Visiting Special:Notifications doesn't automatically mark notifications as read anymore. You can go between read, unread or all notifications on Special:Notifications. Notifications on Special:Notifications are grouped by day. You can mark every daily group as read individually. Notifications are displayed by groups of 50 on Special:Notifications and you can find former notifications by using navigation arrows. [43][44][45][46]
Changes this week
- You can filter user contributions to hide minor edits. [47]
- It will be easier to edit galleries with the visual editor. [48]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar).
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18:41, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 05 June 2016
- News and notes: WMF cuts budget for 2016-17 as scope tightens
- Featured content: Overwhelmed ... by pictures
- Traffic report: Pop goes the culture, again.
- Arbitration report: ArbCom case "Gamaliel and others" concludes
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Video Games
The Signpost: 15 June 2016
- News and notes: Clarifications on status and compensation of outgoing executive directors Sue Gardner and Lila Tretikov
- Special report: Wikiversity Journal—A new user group
- In the media: Biography disputes; Craig Newmark donation; PR editing
- Featured content: From the crème de la crème
- Traffic report: Another one with sports; Knockout, brief candle
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Notifications were not always marked as read when you followed a link from an email notification. This will now happen. [49]
Changes this week
- The list of other languages an article is available in will be shorter on small Wikipedias and non-Wikipedia projects. This is to make it easier to find the most relevant languages for each user. You will still be able to see the other languages. [50][51]
- Alerts (the red badge) will not be automatically marked as read when you open the Notifications popup. [52]
- When you get several thanks you can see them as one notification. This is instead of one notification for each thanks. [53]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is develop Markdown support strategy for MediaWiki. The meeting will be on 22 June at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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19:14, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The ORES service has now moved to a new location. This should make it easier to use ORES. The ORES review service is now available as a beta feature on Wikidata and Persian Wikipedia. ORES is an artificial intelligence system for Wikimedia wikis to help editors. [54]
- The order of wikis in collapsed cross-wiki notifications was different than when the list was expanded. This is now fixed. [55]
- A new category for tracking pages with math errors was added: Category:Pages with math errors. [56]
Problems
- The Wikimedia Etherpad crashed on June 23. Some edits done that day have been lost. They can be found at etherpad-restore.wikimedia.org for another few days. [57][58]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (calendar).
- The way to mark notifications as read or unread will be changed to be more clear. [59]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation will look at developing better tools for edit review. This is because research suggests we scare away newcomers who want to help. [60]
- An e-mail from the Editing Department explains the technical work that is planned and being researched for the future. Items include better wikitext and visual editing, prompts for edits, language improvements, annotations, and meta-data separation. [61]
- The sorting of Notifications into the two fly-out menus is going to change on July 5 to 7. Bundled notifications should be easier to explore and mark as read individually. [62][63][64]
- From 29 June git.wikimedia.org (running Gitblit) will redirect all requests to Phabricator. The vast majority of requests should be correctly redirected. [65]
- Catalan and Polish Wikipedias will have Wikidata descriptions added to articles in the mobile view by default. This is currently a beta option for the mobile versions. This might come to other wikis later. [66]
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15:42, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
Editing News #2—2016
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Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Arabic and Indic scripts, and adapting the visual editor to the needs of the Wikivoyages and Wikisources.
Recent changes
The visual editor is now available to all users at most Wikivoyages. It was also enabled for all contributors at the French Wikinews.
The single edit tab feature combines the "Change" and "Change source" tabs into a single "Change" tab. It has been deployed to several Wikipedias, including Hungarian, Polish, English and Japanese Wikipedias, as well as to all Wikivoyages. At these wikis, you can change your settings for this feature in the "Editing" tab of Special:Preferences. The team is now reviewing the feedback and considering ways to improve the design before rolling it out to more people.
Future changes
The "Save page" button will say "Publish page". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including: Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Urdu, Persian, Bengali, Assamese, Aramaic and others.
The team is working with the volunteer developers who power Wikisource to provide the visual editor there, for opt-in testing right now and eventually for all users. (T138966)
The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. It will look like the visual editor, and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices around September 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.
Let's work together
- Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce.
- Learn how to improve the "automagical" citoid referencing system in the visual editor, by creating Zotero translators for popular sources in your language! Watch the Tech Talk by Sebastian Karcher for more information.
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17:18, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- A daily email summary of notifications could be sent even when there were no notifications from the wiki. Now no email will be sent if there is no activity. [67]
Changes this week
- The "⧼citoid-citefromidtool-title⧽" button in the visual editor's toolbar will move into the "Insert" menu except for Wikipedias, Wikibookses and Wikiversities. This is to make it less prominent on wikis that don't use it as much. [68]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).
Meetings
- You can take part in the next office hour for Wikidata on IRC on July 8 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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19:45, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- A new image scaler fixed a number of bugs for showing SVG files. Some new problems turned up. [69][70][71]
- Notifications are grouped by types. They are now counted by number of notifications and not by unread groups. That change may increase the number of notifications displayed. The earlier way of counting was often incorrect. Unread notifications will also be displayed first. [72][73][74]
- Special:Notifications now has a maximum width for the notifications list on desktop computers. This allows long titles and descriptions to be cut properly. Notifications are now also better parsed. [75][76][77]
Problems
- On 5 July Wikimedia Commons had problems and could not be edited for 20 minutes. For a short while after that the recent changes log and some gadgets were not working properly. It affected administrative actions on other projects too. [78]
- Users who have multiple unread notifications can mark them as read by visiting Special:Notifications page on their wiki.
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 July. It will be on all wikis from 14 July (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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15:14, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Due to the rollback, new sorting of Notifications on the Fly-Out Menus has been deployed with a delay. [79]
- Due to the rollback, the daily special patch deployment process has been changed. [80]
- In notifications, "Messages" are now called "Notices". [81]
Problems
- On July 12 all wikis were rolled back to MediaWiki 1.28.0-wmf.8 due to a problem in the log-in system. [82][83]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (calendar).
- Special:Log now has a help link. [84]
- The RevisionSlider can be tested on the beta cluster. From 22 July, it will be available as a beta feature at: German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "Devise plan for a cross-wiki watchlist back-end". The meeting will be on 20 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [85]
Future changes
- User scripts and bots can no longer use http:// to edit wiki pages. [86][87]
- Gerrit is going to be updated. Developers are invited to test it. [88]
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12:01, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
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Recent changes
- Interactive maps have been enabled for Meta wiki and the Catalan, Hebrew, and Macedonian Wikipedias. Learn how to add interactive maps to wiki pages.
- Last week's rollback is now documented. [89]
Problems
- Sometimes, the visual editor required saving twice. That problem is now fixed. [90]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).
- It is now possible to mark all Notifications as read on Special:Notifications, by clicking on the cog icon. [91]
- Wikipedia search will now detect the language of your search if 2 or fewer results are found. It will then show results from the matching language Wikipedia, if any relevant article exists. It will start to roll out in 5 languages. [92]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "an extension that implements an authenticated key-value store". The meeting will be on 27 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [93]
Future changes
- The current icon for Notifications "Notices" (in English "Notices") will be changed from a bubble-speech icon to a tray icon for consistency. [94]
- Special:Notifications page code will be changed to be more Mobile friendly. [95]
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- A prototype for structured data on Commons is available now. [96]
- The RevisionSlider beta feature can now be tested on mediawiki.org, German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia.
Problems
- Renamed users on some wikis were not connected to their account on other wikis between 20 July and 21 July. This has been fixed. [97]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 2 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- The next CREDIT showcase will be on 3 August at 18:00 (UTC). This is to present and comment on new gadgets, small projects and works in progress. See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "notifications in core". The meeting will be on 3 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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